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Maria Edgeworth, born #OTD 1768 at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, England. Lived most of her life in Ireland, in Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford. Prolific author of novels and educational works under her own name.
#dib: https://www.dib.ie/biography/edgeworth-maria-a2882
"What Irish Enlightenment? The case of Maria Edgeworth"
https://oll.libertyfund.org/reading-room/2023-02-28-donway-irish-enlightenment-maria-edgeworth“My accomplished friend”: the life and philosophy of Maria Edgeworth
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/01/01/maria-edgeworth/ -
Before reading about Edward Despard, l hadn't known there was an auxillary to the #UnitedIrishmen called the United Englishmen, or of the executions relating to 1803 #RobertEmmet Rising outside Dublin.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/despard-edward-marcus-a2543
#Kildare connection: his wife Catherine left destitute stayed for a time at Lyons, near Hazelhatch. Given the interracial marriage in "Belinda", I wonder if #MariaEdgeworth knew of her.
https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/9234
Re https://bird.makeup/users/lorraineelizab6/statuses/1627896422623322113
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The #1798Rising informed #MariaEdgeworth 's novels "Castle Rackrent" and "Ennui". This article covers both that, and the (now difficult to believe) contemporary erasure of Protestant involvement in the Rising. (This, despite many of the leaders being Protestant *and* the fierce fighting in Antrim and Down.)
"Ascendancy and the 1798 Rebellion in Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent (1800) and Ennui (1809)"
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Two more #1798Rising #YearOfTheFrench tweet and a connection to #IrishPhilosophy: #MariaEdgeworth was in Longford at the time of Humbert's invasion.
https://books.google.ie/books?id=q6RWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA365&lpg=PA365
Chapter VIII covers her experience, including the unexpected saving of their house due to a rebel's gratitude to the housekeeper (pp. 370-1), her father accused of conspiring with the French (pp. 374-5) and an appearance by Sarrazin (p. 376) captured after French defeat at Ballynamuck near Granard #Longford.
